Round-up: BBCS lands Woodcut shows; Prime Video UK buys from Abacus; Max cancels ‘Our Flag Means Death’

World War II: Women On The Frontline (Source: Woodcut Int’l / Lt. E G Malindine / Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

BBC Select lands Woodcut shows

BBC Select, the BBC Studios-owned streamer in North America, has acquired a 20-hour package of shows from Woodcut International.

Titles include World War II: Women on the Frontline, A Royal Guide To…, (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story, The Man Who Took Shannon Matthews and Forgotten War Stories.

Elsewhere, MagellanTV in the US took a package totalling 38 hours that included Football: A Brief History By Alfie Allen and The Underground Army, while Blue Ant Media picked up Murder Casebook for its FAST offerings.

Other deals saw SVT in Sweden and Viasat World in Poland, Scandinavia & CEE snagging World War II: Women on the Frontline, while Italy’s La7 picked up the first season of A Royal Guide To...

Prime Video UK buys from Abacus

Amazon Prime Video has bolstered its true-crime offering by picking up shows including Murder In A Tea Cup, Murder At First Swipe, Scissor Sisters and Breaking Dad: The Richard Lubbock Story (w/t).

The deals were struck via Abacus Media Rights (AMR) and also includes Lucie Blackman: Missing In Tokyo, while Peninsula Television’s The Heiress And The Heist and Confessions Of A Crime Boss have also been acquired.

Max cancels ‘Our Flag Means Death’

Warner Bros. Discovery streamer Max has cancelled comedy series Our Flag Means Death after two seasons.

The show was created by David Jenkins, who confirmed the news on social media. “The bad news is clear. Our Flag won’t be returning for a third season,” he wrote.

“We’ve sailed the pleasure of the fine people at Max, and it brought them no joy to see this journey come to a premature end.

“Casey Bloys, Sarah Aubrey, Suzanna Makes, Billy Wee, and David Ruby have been incredible champions of this show. They allowed us to make something authentically weird and hearted, cheering us the entire way.”

Our Flag Means Death starred Rhys Darby and was exec produced Taika Waititi, whose FX comedy Reservation Dogs recently ended.

Waititi is also behind What We Do In The Shadows, which is set to end after its sixth season later this year, while new projects include Apple TV+’s reboot of Time Bandits starring Lisa Kudrow.